Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 235 327
Rank change year-on-year -129 +92 -56
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 493 678 757
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.38% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.54% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 257 297 423
10th Percentile £36,750 £47,500 £37,861
25th Percentile £48,750 £59,224 £51,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +2.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,503
% change year-on-year - +8.69% -11.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -120 447 £63,076 -13.00% 606
London -34 267 £71,028 -11.22% 433
Work from Home +32 242 £63,000 -3.08% 207
UK excluding London -183 179 £62,500 - 230
North of England -15 66 £63,076 -15.90% 53
North West +14 43 £83,750 +28.85% 23
South East -139 30 £39,250 -37.20% 63
East of England -15 27 £65,000 -9.72% 17
Midlands -44 25 £52,500 -23.08% 40
South West -79 22 £68,528 +14.21% 21
Yorkshire -31 20 £60,850 -22.73% 23
West Midlands -36 20 £57,500 -14.81% 27
Scotland +10 7 £85,000 +4.62% 20
East Midlands -33 5 £37,500 -50.00% 13
North East -45 3 £63,076 -23.54% 7
Wales -55 3 £65,000 +8.59% 10
Northern Ireland -71 1 - - 10

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 16 (3.25%) Confluence
3 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (10.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.41%) Moqups
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (7.91%) Workfront
2 4 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.81%) Shopify
3 2 (0.41%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) Eikon
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.20%) RMDS
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 81 (16.43%) SaaS
2 71 (14.40%) AWS
3 54 (10.95%) Azure
4 53 (10.75%) iPaaS
5 17 (3.45%) GCP
6 15 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (2.64%) GitHub
8 12 (2.43%) Power Platform
9 11 (2.23%) Figma
10 10 (2.03%) OneDrive
11 9 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.42%) Google Workspace
13 6 (1.22%) Asana
14 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.01%) Miro
15 4 (0.81%) Amazon Bedrock
15 4 (0.81%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (0.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 4 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 62 (12.58%) Broadband
2 30 (6.09%) HTTP
3 10 (2.03%) WAN
4 8 (1.62%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.42%) Firewall
6 6 (1.22%) LAN
7 5 (1.01%) Network Security
7 5 (1.01%) NGN
8 4 (0.81%) MPLS
8 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.61%) Intranet
9 3 (0.61%) WLAN
10 2 (0.41%) DNS
10 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.41%) Multicast
10 2 (0.41%) SAN
10 2 (0.41%) Skype
10 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.41%) VoIP
10 2 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.75%) Metadata
2 11 (2.23%) Power BI
3 5 (1.01%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.41%) Big Data
5 2 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.41%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.20%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.20%) MySQL
6 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.20%) Redis
6 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (7.10%) JIRA
2 6 (1.22%) Git
3 3 (0.61%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.61%) Selenium
4 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.41%) Postman
5 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.20%) JUnit
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 160 (32.45%) Marketing
1 160 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 141 (28.60%) Finance
3 75 (15.21%) Banking
4 64 (12.98%) Retail
5 57 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (11.16%) Law
8 52 (10.55%) Presentation Skills
9 46 (9.33%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (6.49%) Public Sector
11 26 (5.27%) Legal
12 21 (4.26%) Back Office
13 18 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (2.84%) Italian Language
14 14 (2.84%) Manufacturing
14 14 (2.84%) Retail Banking
15 12 (2.43%) Telecoms
16 11 (2.23%) German Language
17 9 (1.83%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 156 (31.64%) Product Manager
2 77 (15.62%) Product Owner
3 71 (14.40%) Senior
4 68 (13.79%) Lead
5 43 (8.72%) Senior Manager
6 40 (8.11%) Senior Product Manager
7 39 (7.91%) Software Engineer
8 31 (6.29%) Development Engineer
9 30 (6.09%) Software Development Engineer
10 25 (5.07%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (4.06%) Developer
12 19 (3.85%) Consultant
13 17 (3.45%) Product Lead
14 16 (3.25%) Platform Manager
15 15 (3.04%) Business Consultant
16 14 (2.84%) Business Development Consultant
16 14 (2.84%) Development Consultant
17 12 (2.43%) AWS Developer
17 12 (2.43%) Azure Developer
17 12 (2.43%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.90%) REST
2 6 (1.22%) CSS
2 6 (1.22%) HTML
2 6 (1.22%) LangChain
3 5 (1.01%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.01%) React
3 5 (1.01%) Spring
3 5 (1.01%) Spring Boot
3 5 (1.01%) TensorFlow
4 4 (0.81%) LangGraph
4 4 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.61%) .NET
5 3 (0.61%) Google Maps API
5 3 (0.61%) Pandas
6 2 (0.41%) CrewAI
6 2 (0.41%) FHIR
6 2 (0.41%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.41%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (0.41%) Plotly
6 2 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (35.09%) Product Ownership
2 63 (12.78%) Social Media
3 54 (10.95%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (10.95%) Over-the-Top Content
4 39 (7.91%) Cloud Native
5 32 (6.49%) Public Cloud
6 22 (4.46%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.04%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.84%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.43%) Web Conferencing
10 11 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (2.03%) Educational Technology
12 9 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.62%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.42%) Podcast
14 7 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (1.22%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.03%) Linux
2 8 (1.62%) Windows
3 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.41%) Unix
3 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (62.68%) Roadmaps
2 217 (44.02%) Agile
3 148 (30.02%) Product Roadmap
4 130 (26.37%) Product Vision
5 113 (22.92%) Decision-Making
6 111 (22.52%) AI
7 106 (21.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 98 (19.88%) User Stories
9 95 (19.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 92 (18.66%) Customer Experience
11 91 (18.46%) Product Backlog
12 80 (16.23%) Product Requirements
13 75 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (15.01%) Software Engineering
14 74 (15.01%) Sprint Planning
15 71 (14.40%) User Experience
16 69 (14.00%) Workflow
17 68 (13.79%) Mentoring
18 65 (13.18%) Matrix Organization
19 64 (12.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.32%) Java
2 23 (4.67%) Python
3 12 (2.43%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.23%) SQL
5 6 (1.22%) Bicep
6 5 (1.01%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.81%) R
8 3 (0.61%) Bash
8 3 (0.61%) C#
8 3 (0.61%) C++
8 3 (0.61%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.61%) PHP
9 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.20%) C
10 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (16.43%) Degree
2 13 (2.64%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.23%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.03%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.83%) HND
6 8 (1.62%) HNC
7 6 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.01%) CSPO
8 5 (1.01%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.01%) MBA
8 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.01%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.01%) PMP
9 4 (0.81%) CCNA
9 4 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.61%) CISSP
10 3 (0.61%) PhD
11 2 (0.41%) ACCA
11 2 (0.41%) Dell Certification
11 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.88%) QA
2 21 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.03%) GDPR
4 5 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.81%) PERC
5 4 (0.81%) SLA
6 3 (0.61%) PMO
7 2 (0.41%) DICOM
7 2 (0.41%) HL7
7 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (1.62%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) Firmware
3 3 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (3.04%) Terraform
2 7 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.41%) WSUS
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.20%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 58 (11.76%) Adobe
2 48 (9.74%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.43%) Google
3 12 (2.43%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.03%) Cisco
4 10 (2.03%) Oracle
5 6 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.01%) Facebook
6 5 (1.01%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.01%) Juniper
7 4 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (0.81%) Toshiba
7 4 (0.81%) Workday
8 3 (0.61%) Aderant
8 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.61%) iManage
8 3 (0.61%) Reuters
8 3 (0.61%) VMware
9 2 (0.41%) CQG
9 2 (0.41%) Red Hat